The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Volum 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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Pàgina 7
... argument of illegality ? and by the repeal of the whole law to give up that power ? No , the properest time to exert our right of taxation is when the right it refused - To temporize is to yield . And the authority of the mother country ...
... argument of illegality ? and by the repeal of the whole law to give up that power ? No , the properest time to exert our right of taxation is when the right it refused - To temporize is to yield . And the authority of the mother country ...
Pàgina 11
... topic has been more familiar to us . For nine long years , session after session , we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional argument and temporary expedients . I am circle AMERICAN WAR . II.
... topic has been more familiar to us . For nine long years , session after session , we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional argument and temporary expedients . I am circle AMERICAN WAR . II.
Pàgina 12
... argument and temporary expedients . I am sure our heads must turn , and our stomachs nau- seate with them . We have had them in every shape - we have looked at them in every point of view - Invention is exhausted ; reason is fatigued ...
... argument and temporary expedients . I am sure our heads must turn , and our stomachs nau- seate with them . We have had them in every shape - we have looked at them in every point of view - Invention is exhausted ; reason is fatigued ...
Pàgina 30
... argument was neither trite nor vulgar , nor subtle , and abstruse . He hit the House just between wind and water - And not being troubled with too anx- ious a zeal for any matter in question , he was never more tedious , or more earnest ...
... argument was neither trite nor vulgar , nor subtle , and abstruse . He hit the House just between wind and water - And not being troubled with too anx- ious a zeal for any matter in question , he was never more tedious , or more earnest ...
Pàgina 48
... argument had presented itself more unanswerable in its nature , and more efficacious , as he had reason to hope , with gentle- men on the other side , than any thing that he or his friend could advance : their assertions might be ques ...
... argument had presented itself more unanswerable in its nature , and more efficacious , as he had reason to hope , with gentle- men on the other side , than any thing that he or his friend could advance : their assertions might be ques ...
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admitted advantage allies America argument army Begums bill Britain British constitution BURKE called Catholics cause church church of England circumstances civil commerce committee conduct consequence consider consideration crown danger declared Dissenters duty effect empire enemy England established executive government expence family compact former France French give ground HASTINGS hostile House House of Commons Ireland justice King kingdom learned gentleman legislature liberty lord CORNWALLIS lords Majesty Majesty's manufactures means measure ment METHUEN treaty ministers motion Nabob nation nature necessary negociation noble object occasion opinion oppression parliament parliament of Ireland peace persons PITT political possession present principles proceeded proposed prove question racter religion repeal respect revenue right honorable friend right honorable gentleman sacrament sentiments SHERIDAN shew Sir ELIJAH Sir ELIJAH IMPEY situation Spain speech spirit stamp act statutes Test act Test laws thing thought tion treaty treaty of Utrecht trust wish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 81 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Pàgina 44 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never.
Pàgina 46 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own : I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character: I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Pàgina 87 - Cup. For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament ; (for then we spiritually eat the Flesh of Christ, and drink His Blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us ;) so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily.
Pàgina 43 - Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Pàgina 88 - Christ with us :) so is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily. For then we are guilty of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour ; we eat and drink our own damnation, not considering the Lord's body...
Pàgina 17 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Pàgina 28 - For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time, to be governed too much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy species, and surely a little too general, led him into measures that were...
Pàgina 30 - If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported.
Pàgina 46 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this House or in this country.